{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1213",
  "legislation_title": "Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pharmacy-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Society",
  "text": "(1) There shall continue to be a Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland ( “the Society”).\n(2) The constitution of the Society shall be as provided in that behalf in Part I of Schedule 1; and the supplementary provisions contained in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect with respect to the Society.\n(3) The objects of the Society shall be—\n(a) to advance chemistry and pharmacy;\n(b) to promote pharmaceutical education and the application of pharmaceutical knowledge;\n(c) to maintain the honour and safeguard and promote the interests of the members of the Society in their exercise of the profession of pharmacy;\n(d) to execute all such functions as may be entrusted to the Society under any enactment;\n(e) to provide relief for distressed persons, being—\n(i) members of the Society;\n(ii) persons who at any time have been members of the Society or have been registered as either pharmaceutical chemists, or chemists and druggists, or druggists or apprentices to pharmaceutical chemists, or as students of the Society; or\n(iii) surviving spouses, surviving civil partners, orphans or dependants of deceased persons who were at any time members of the Society or registered as aforesaid.\n(4) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, the Society may—\n(a) acquire and hold land for the purposes for which the Society is constituted, and either dispose of or charge any such land;\n(b) approve bye-laws made under Article 4;\n(c) undertake and execute any lawful trust for the furtherance of any of the objects of the Society;\n(d) accept gifts and donations and support, or aid in the support of, charitable or benevolent associations or institutions, or any cause which appears to the Society to be deserving of its support or aid;\n(e) invest any funds of the Society not required for immediate use or to meet the usual accruing liabilities of the Society in any investment authorised by law for the investment of trust property;\n(f) apply funds under the Society's control towards providing scholarships for the furtherance of education and research in pharmacy, in accordance with regulations under Article 5;\n(g) do all such other matters and things as are reasonably necessary for, or incidental to the furtherance of, the objects of the Society or any of them, or the exercise of the powers of the Society or any of them.\n(5) Any money received by the Society on the disposal of any land under paragraph (4)( a) shall be applied by the Society to some purpose of its functions to which capital moneys are properly applicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2004 c.33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1213/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:42.465894+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}